Psalms 39:9 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 39:9

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

KJV

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ASV

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

WEB

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

YLT

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou--Thou hast done it .

DBT

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done [it].

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

28 verses on the floor

Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Ezekiel 16:63
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
Job 2:10
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
1 Samuel 3:18
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.

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If our hope be in God for a happiness in the other world, we may well afford to reconcile ourselves to all the dispensations of his providence concerning us in this world: " I was dumb;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He remembered the covenants he had made with God to walk circumspectly, and to be very cautious both of what he did and what he said. When at any time we are tempted to sin, and are in danger of falling into it, we must call to mind the solemn vows we have made against sin, against the particular sin we are upon the brink of.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Before thee - If compared with thee, and with thy everlasting duration. Vain shew - Hebrew. in a shadow or image; in an imaginary rather than a real life: in the pursuit of vain imaginations, in which there is nothing solid or satisfactory: man in and his life, and all his happiness in this world, are rather appearances and dreams, than truths and realities.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 39:9JOB 2:10 JAS 1:12
PSA 39:9JOB 2:10 LAM 3:38-41
PSA 39:9JOB 1:21 ECC 5:15
PSA 39:9JOB 1:21 JOB 2:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 39:9JOB 1:21 1TI 6:7
PSA 39:9JOB 2:10 JOB 1:21-22
PSA 39:9JOB 1:21 1TH 5:18
PSA 39:9JOB 2:10 ROM 12:12

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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